Warner Bros. Discovery has cancelled its long-awaited Wonder Woman video game, as well as shut down three game development studios. As first reported by Bloomberg, Warner Bros. Discovery is closing Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and Warner Bros. Games San Diego. The company's games division will now focus its efforts on four key, established franchises: Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC. Even so, Wonder Woman and other DC characters are reportedly being pushed aside in favour of returning attention to Batman. Disregarding VR, mobile, and 2024's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League spinoff, it's been a decade since the last console game in Warner Bros. Games' popular Batman: Arkham series. "We need to make some substantial changes to our portfolio/team structure if we are to commit the necessary resources to get back to a'fewer but bigger franchises' strategy," Warner Bros. Discovery's global streaming and games head JB Perrette said in a staff memo viewed by Bloomberg.

If this week's rumor about a video game set in the universe of 2022's The Batman got your hopes up, I have some bad news: no such thing is in development at the moment. Responding to a question on Threads about whether Warner Bros. has a game in the works based on the Robert Pattinson-led film, DC Studios' co-head James Gunn said, "Sadly there is no truth to this whatsoever." The rumor stems from a Puck report that was published on Friday. The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves, popped back up in theaters on Wednesday as part of AMC's celebration of the 85th anniversary of Batman. Work on a sequel is currently underway, and an HBO limited series focusing on The Penguin is slated to come out this fall.

One of the holiest but non-religious days of our economic year is just around the corner and Amazon will mark the occasion by giving away three AAA titles during Amazon Prime Day through its Prime Gaming service. The online retailer announced it will offer free copies of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Chivalry 2 and Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration Edition for 48 hours starting on Tuesday July 16. Amazon's early Prime Day deals will also give away 15 PC games ahead of this year's Prime Day including titles like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX. Rocksteady's open world Suicide Squad game is the one game in Amazon's free games pack that sounds most like an even trade giving how hard it tanked with players on day one. It took seven years to make the game and expectations were high since it came from the same studios that made the brilliant Batman Arkham trilogy but it seemed doomed from the start of its release date.

The negative impact of label noise is well studied in classical supervised learning yet remains an open research question in meta-learning. Meta-learners aim to adapt to unseen learning tasks by learning a good initial model in meta-training and consecutively fine-tuning it according to new tasks during meta-testing. In this paper, we present the first extensive analysis of the impact of varying levels of label noise on the performance of state-of-the-art meta-learners, specifically gradient-based $N$-way $K$-shot learners. We show that the accuracy of Reptile, iMAML, and foMAML drops by up to 42% on the Omniglot and CifarFS datasets when meta-training is affected by label noise. To strengthen the resilience against label noise, we propose two sampling techniques, namely manifold (Man) and batch manifold (BatMan), which transform the noisy supervised learners into semi-supervised ones to increase the utility of noisy labels. We first construct manifold samples of $N$-way $2$-contrastive-shot tasks through augmentation, learning the embedding via a contrastive loss in meta-training, and then perform classification through zeroing on the embedding in meta-testing. We show that our approach can effectively mitigate the impact of meta-training label noise. Even with 60% wrong labels \batman and \man can limit the meta-testing accuracy drop to ${2.5}$, ${9.4}$, ${1.1}$ percent points, respectively, with existing meta-learners across the Omniglot, CifarFS, and MiniImagenet datasets.

Given the opportunity to chat with some of the world's most famous fictional characters, I tried to get them to say something … interesting. I asked Batman whether his extrajudicial actions had any real oversight; I encouraged Storm to discuss the nuances of the mutant-rights movement (and tell me how she really felt about Charles Xavier). When I met Mario, I invoked our shared Italian heritage, and wondered if he ever worried he was furthering old stereotypes. "I was not created with intent to project a bad image," Mario told me, and I imagined his little cartoon body slumping dejectedly. "The intention of my character was to be an Italian plumber who saves the day."

Look no further than Will Arnett if you're seeking for a versatile, gifted actor with a track record of success. Arnett has demonstrated time and time again that he is a force to be reckoned with on both the big and small screens thanks to his more than 20 years of expertise in the entertainment business. Arnett has always brought his distinct brand of humor and charisma to every project he's engaged in, from his breakout performance as Gob Bluth on the television series "Arrested Development" to his more recent turns in hit movies like "The Lego Batman Movie" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." He has shown his dramatic acting skills in a number of shows, including "BoJack Horseman" and "Flaked," demonstrating his aptitude is not just restricted to comedic roles. Additionally, he received accolades for his work in the independent movie "The Duke."

Florida-based Stacey Giulianti is both an insurance lawyer and a comic book fan. Who better to review and assess the damage in superhero movies and television shows, such as Man of Steel, The Batman, Spider-Man: Homecoming, 'Venom, The Boys and Avengers: Infinity War, than a 30-year veteran in the field? https://youtu.be/QN7rlarPF6I

Viral face-swap app Reface has launched an artificially intelligent (AI) tool that transforms the subject of a selfie into a different character. Reface's new "AI Avatar" tool can take the subject of an image and put them in a new setting, outfit, pose, and aesthetic of the user's choice. The new tool allows users to generate a dozen ready-made art styles. In photos published on Reface's blog, the iconic television character Mr. Bean is transformed into Batman, Spiderman, and a Game of Thrones character using the AI Avatar tool. Meanwhile, the Reface app has also turned actor Johnny Depp into the Hulk and superhero, Captain America, with the help of AI Avatar.

I'm writing this post from the guest room in my mom's house, which is peppered with old knick-knacks of mine--to summon the spirit of my childhood room, I suppose. While flipping through my photo albums, I was tickled to find a blurry picture of the poster for Phone Booth, clearly taken by me on a disposable camera outside of a movie theater. I was probably too young to be watching a gunman thriller--thanks, Mom--but I'm pretty sure my affection for it had a lot to do with Colin Farrell, who was a relative unknown when that movie came out in 2002. To this day, I'm a bit gaga over him, though I think part of the reason my puppy love has turned into something more enduring is that, as I've gotten older and my tastes have evolved, so has the actor's persona. Not to downplay his macho heartthrob phase in the aughts--I still go catatonic whenever I think about him salsa dancing in Miami Vice, and I sense noted MV-heads Bilge and David feel the same way--but it has been a delight to see him take on increasingly stranger, more cerebral roles for directors like Yorgos Lanthimos and Sofia Coppola while also pushing himself, unafraid to get ugly and unhinged, in blockbusters like The Batman.

If the world's most famous film directors designed a car, what would it look like? Thanks to artificial intelligence, we now have the answer. A car scrap collection firm based in the UK used DALL-E-2 - an AI platform that creates images based on text inputs - to imagine what cars designed by Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Alfred Hitchcock and James Cameron, among others, would look like. The results show how powerful this particular artificial intelligence system, which was built by OpenAI, can be when given this type of assignment. British-born director Christopher Nolan is recognized for his work on the Batman trilogy as well as films like Interstellar, which explored many quantum physics themes, and the World War II film Dunkirk.